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Question:How do you surpass your Auburn, NY 2014 fundraiser affair with a 2015 event when both affairs shared the same theme and venue???!!!Answer:You kick it up several notches.

"In the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance...Revisted, 2015," was an event rarely seen, if ever seen in Auburn, NY. Uptown met downtown. Downstate met upstate. Poets, writers and spoken word performers enhanced by the piano stylings of Andy Rudy created an evening that transported the audience back to the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Here are some photos:

aaduna,
Inc. rocked Auburn, NY
as it celebrated the fifth year of publishing aaduna, an online literary and visual arts journal at a festive fundraising
affair at the CayugaMuseum’s Theater Mack.The event featured New
York poets and writers from the upstate Auburn region who were joined by
creative colleagues from the New York
City downstate area.The
affair recognized the spirit and ambiance of the Harlem Renaissance.

A
related aspect of this celebration was a poetry workshop conducted by Raymond Nat
Turner at AuburnHigh School sponsored by the Harriet
Tubman Boosters in conjunction with the Booker T. Washington Community Center.Turner was one of the featured performers at
the evening’s fundraiser, and aaduna, Inc. helped to facilitate the workshop’s
planning.

This workshop was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc., with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Every issue of aaduna
brings a certain anxiety, expectation, and nervousness before the actual
launch.Once the issue is launched,
there is a sense of exhilaration and satisfaction, a sigh of relief quickly followed
by festive celebration.

As
one would surmise, anniversary issues tend to ramp up these feelings pre- and
post launch.This year, our fifth year
of publishing, we experienced skyrocketed dynamics that escalated towards a level
not seen before; and hopefully, not to be seen again.Issues on one of our coding
and uploading platforms tested the resiliency of our custom designed
website.While we had to take “extra
steps” to re-position the disarray to our index files and platform, our
consultants, Theodora Ravago and Christopher Gannon of Banwa Design
made this unexpected situation an incident (though not trivial,) and not the
disaster that we expected.aaduna’s webmaster, Lisa Brennan, then
took control. She droitly coded and uploaded the issue with swagger, and then with her
smil…

Educator and creative activist who seeks to build a community of new and
emerging writers and artists, especially people of color, through the
thrice yearly online literary and cultural publication, simply titled
aaduna. Visit www.aaduna.org